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... right inside. Cardboard boxes have been specially made and arranged to sit exactly where they would have been scattered around Lee Harvey Oswald on the day. Apart from that, everything else in that sealed off area is exactly the same as it was on the day. You can walk right up to the next window along from the sniper's nest and from there, we could see the two crosses on the road below in Dealey Plaza. Each cross marks the exact place JFK was hit by the two ...

... br> We left and continued on to Gallup to book into our hotel, America’s Best Value Inn. We’ll see – we’ve now twice heard train whistles, so it may be a night for earplugs! Gallup is on Route 66, with motel upon motel, jewellery stores, pawn shops, native Indian shops, etc., along the Route for a few miles. There’s a whole other area to the town on the other side of the train tracks, ...

... of interest, before we came to the Midway Cafe which is the central point of Route 66! It was 1,833km to Chicago and the same to Santa Monica. We bought a nice pictorial record of the route from the shop there and then it was on towards Albuquerque, through some ranch land which was covered with wind turbines - I have never seen so many, even in Europe where there was some big wind farms - but this was huge! We drove about ...

A little longer ride today. As we have continued this journey over the past few weeks, we have tried to limit our time on the road to appx. 6 hours and appx. 400-450 miles. We took on 550miles and what Mapquest estimated to be 8 hours. We made today's 550 miles in 7.5hours, averaging 74MPH. One of the pics will show why. Rhonda took it as we were on cruise control following a Cadillac Escalade for about ...

So we headed off from the blue swallow not before having some of the cinnamon bread the folks at the ranch supply gave us the night before it was good sat outside in the heat having a cup of tea awesome. It wasn't as warm his morning about 24. We headed up the road and with not a lot of stops and smallish miles today we decided to detour on the most scenic route up through ...